Elizabeth Warren Attacks Republican for Being Soft on Pot

Scenes from the drug war in Massachusetts.

At a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston this past weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) took a jab at pro-legalization Republican State Representative Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk), who is currently vying for the Republican nomination for Senate in Massachusetts's upcoming special election.

Addressing the crowd, Senator Warren said, "I advise everyone to pay very close attention to Dan Winslow's platform. He has a 100 percent ranking from the gun lobby and he's for the legalization of marijuana. He wants us armed and stoned."

Let the record show that on Planet Warren, the only conceivable reason to support legal pot is to want everyone to get high.

Addendum: If you want to see Warren opposing legalization with a direct "no" rather than wrapping the sentiment in a St. Patrick's Day breakfast joke, go here.

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She really is. Is there a single issue where her views are not completely vile? Even the worst liberals can often get issues like Pot or freedom of expression right sometimes. But Warren seems to always take the worst possible position on every issue.

We bought a new Subaru in 2009, and Subaru started mailing us literature 6 to 8 times a year. They have done cool stuff at the production facility to reduce waste and pollution (good business practice that also is green, like Walmart putting APUs on refrigerator trucks). But their marketing is directly to flighty, wholesome, hispter, green, jackasses.

You can cut a tighter corner going backwards. So in tight urban parking lots it is easier to park.

I was on business trip to London many years ago, and we had a “mid-sized” sedan because there were four of us. None of us could figure out how to park the fucking car at the customer parking lot because it was so tight.

One of the engineers we were there to meet just happened to walk by and helped us by parking the car in backward. He said it was the only way to get a car into a small space.

The Deanmobile (an FJ Cruiser) has terrible rear visibility, so its much safer to pull out than to back out. Near as I can tell, the net amount of time involved is the same either way: you’re always backing up at some point, and its easier to back into a space than to back into traffic.

Time to ban military-style assault parking. No one needs to park their car in a military fashion.

Parking tactics of war have no place on our city streets, in shopping malls, churches, schools, or other places.

It’s time for congress to act to protect all of our children and close the parking lot loophole. It’s time to act now to ban the parking method of gangsters, bank robbers, thieves, kidnappers, and other criminals.

Freedom from Worry. Freedom from Responsibility. Freedom from Consequences.

What more freedom could you want? You have the freedom to relax, comfortable in the knowledge that your betters with the government are looking out for you, solving your problems for you. You need never make a choice, you need never strive or struggle, you need never think. You are Free.

She is one of those puritanical zealots. Like religious puritan who will only have sex for procreation, Warren will only allow you to have free speech so that you can praise the state. Any other use of freedom is a mortal sin.

Her or Schumer? Schumer has much more of a track record to go on. She is going to have to put in at least a couple of more years of consistent evil wrongness before she is a serious contender. But she is off to a good start.

She’s a Regressive. She wants to pretend that the 20th century never happened, and take us back to the glory days when faith in government was unbounded, when we turned to the temperance movement and eugenics in the hope that our betters could build a better population and eliminate poverty and crime by the sheer force of their intentions.

Massachusetts is a large part of the reason we aren’t still a British colony. Apparently they’re treasonous fucks no matter what country they’re attached to. Kicking them out on their own would mean some peace and quiet for everyone for a change.

Is she seriously for a $22 minimum wage? That’s worse than what those OWS idiots were painting on their signs. Can you imagine getting $22 an hour for working a Wendy’s in Podunk, West Virginia? You’d live like a king. (Or you’d be laid off. One of the two.)

Ding ding ding! Every liberal I know projects their emotion onto everyone. They don’t trust themselves with a gun so you can’t have one. They know how they are with certain substances and no one should feel that way. They are guilty of thinking minorities are lesser people so they need to correct the system to appease their guilty consciences. In other words, pay offs…and get the rich to do it because they know they, the liberals themselves, don’t need that much money so no one should have that much. It’s really a despicable existence.

“Later, after consuming alcohol, or ‘fire water’ as her people know it, Warren is reported as having called the crowd, ‘Seriously retahded’ and ‘wicked queer’ for electing Scott Brown to replace the departed Senator Ted Kennedy 3 years ago.”

She literally churns my stomach. Especially when in the comments to every article about her in a mainstream publication includes the blind partisan cheerleading for her “you go girl! get them bankers!!”

She just says whatever she thinks will work in combating the OTHER TEAM. That is all. She is very clearly one of those politicians who has no ideological foundation whatsoever, like the Clintons, only FAR FAR more stupid.

You think so? I tend to agree with Califoernian here. If you look at her career as a whole, it has been nothing but opportunism. Pretending to be an Indian, becoming an “expert” in a field, consumer law, that allows her to spout the maximum PC bullshit necessary to get ahead as an academic all point to her just being a craven opportunist.

Winslow call for the Senator’s lapidation sets a dangerous precedent, as irate foreigners lobbing Heinz ketchup bottles at the Secretary of State might invitel Lt. Kerry USNR , no stranger to the AR-15 to retaliate in violation of pending UN sanctions against the arms trade.

I actually had some flaming Lib on a Reason YouTube Rand Paul thread state that he pictured Libertarians as the perfect liberals (in the classical sense this would be true)and that we had so much in common. I responded that I believed that progressives were the most vile statists on the planet. He actually held this woman and Kucinich up as beacons of what good progressives are and that was proof they had integrity. *wretch*

No one who was responsible paid any price whatsoever for the 08 collapse. So what reason would they possibly have to avoid another one? I will never forget Mrs. Sudderman whining support of TARP about how “everyone involved in these banks has already lost most of what they have”. She really said that. No one but the taxpayer lost shit.

It looks like they exaggerated (or mistakenly typed) the value of the derivatives, but even $227 trillion is insane. That’s 15 years worth of US GDP. What the fuck values could they possibly derive from?

That’s the big question. Let’s face it, smart people liquid for 250K don’t let it sit in FDIC depository accounts. People with not much money are going to be okay. Anybody who has over 250K in paper(digital, really) money is probably going be screwed anyway. The value of your non-physical assets (bonds, stocks, etc) is going to go to shit in a systemic collapse.

Schmucks like me will have our worthless fiat currency, for all the good it will do us, since inflation will come in like a mofo at that point.

I think it was Harry Browne who pointed out that if you ran a private insurance company the way the FDIC is run, you’d be put in prison for fraud. Also that the FDIC’s weakness is a large part of why they are so energetic about rushing to save any small banks that fail – they have to put out a small fire, because if they didn’t, it might grow into a larger fire they couldn’t contain.

BOB GARFIELD: Do you worry about the irony of the universe leading you to be shot by a plastic gun?

CODY WILSON: I don’t worry about it, but I think it’s a strong possibility. Nick Bilton at the New York Times asked me the very same thing, aren’t you worried that someone’s gonna, you know, print one of these out and shoot you to make some point? Well, yeah, it’s probably gonna happen, right? But it’ll be some progressive, some frustrated progressive who thinks that I ruined the world by, you know, disabling his nanny state. So, well fine, perhaps I have to suffer a death, but it only makes their cause a little bit more futile.

What about a printable thermonuclear device? We must allow people to disintermediate their access to nuclear weapons. I think we can all agree that no one should be a consequentialist when it comes to personal WMDs.

He said there was a good chance ‘some frustrated progressive’ will shoot him. When was the last time a Progressive shot anyone? All the murderous crazies are on the right. carrying their guns around like prosthetic p—–s. Far more likely he’ll get killed in a drunken argument with another right wing nut, or by a member of his plastic gun-toting family, perhaps one of his children. There’s about billion billion cool things you can make with a 3-d printer, and the only thing that this poor schnook can think of is to make a gun… pitiful little creature…

Anyway… excuse me but I’ve got to go shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theater to disintermediate myself from insanity…

Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch politician/parliamentarian was shot by Volkert van der Graaf, an animal rights and environmental activist. I’ve got at least a couple of Hungarian ‘progressives’ (although they wouldn’t admit to be such) up in arms just by mentioning this political murder.

Here you go: Mike M from Pittsburgh, PA I’m not a Constitutional scholar, but I’m pretty sure that, as far as Supreme Court rulings are concerned, there are no absolute rights guaranteed by the constitution, including the rights to free speech and to bear arms. And with good reason.

I’m sure there are many more sophisticated ways of supporting and expressing the arguments against his position, but I think they all more or less boil down to “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” Mr. Wilson seems to lack this basic understanding, so ultimately seems silly but unfortunately not inconsequential.

Kudos to Mr. Garfield for letting Mr. Wilson hang himself with his own rope.

Her “So you built a business. Good for you! But, how will your workers get there without ROADS!? We need TAXES to pay for ROADS!!!” speech is hailed as a consummate expression of the modern American progressive’s economic philosophy.

She’s like the janitor at Microsoft, demanding a huge kickback because – how would you have built this company if there was trash lying around everywhere? Yes, I was paid at the time, but that was before you became RICH! Now that you are rich, you have to pay me $100/hour, retroactively, for picking up your trash while you built this business.

Senator Warren said, “I advise everyone to pay very close attention to Dan Winslow’s platform. He has a 100 percent ranking from the gun lobby and he’s for the legalization of marijuana. He wants us armed and stoned.”

American left-wingers appropriated the term “liberal” when “progressive” fell out of fashion after Woodrow Wilson. (“Socialist” never had a lot of traction with the general public.) By the ’70s and ’80s “liberal” had acquired a stench, so it was back to “progressive” for a while. Perhaps the stench of “liberal” has worn off a bit, so again that term has become more common for self-identification.

? adj 1. relating to or having social and political views that favour progress and reform 2. relating to or having policies or views advocating individual freedom 3. giving and generous in temperament or behaviour 4. tolerant of other people 5. abundant; lavish: a liberal helping of cream 6. not strict; free: a liberal translation 7. of or relating to an education that aims to develop general cultural interests and intellectual ability

Well this is the crux; Liberal used to refer to definitions 2 and 4. Now if refers to definitions 1 and 5. 1 as in progress= we (government) know what is best for you and 5 meaning a generous helping of definition 1. Hope that helps.

To be fair, it was the St Patrick’s day breakfast in South Boston, a comedy roast with a long tradition. A little more context would be good.

Given that, she still used her time to attempt to denegrate a political opponent even if she could say she was “just funnin’ him.” Which puts her squarely in the camp of the “same old-same old” political hacks that came before her.

I don’t see this as a facepalm moment. Fraud is fraud. The customer has a right to know what he’s purchasing.

The people who are probably most pissed off about this are people who don’t buy real fur for ethical reasons, and were fraudulently tricked into violating their ethics. You may laugh at them, but they have the same right to fraud-free transactions as anyone else.

The people who are probably most pissed off about this are people who don’t buy real fur for “ethical” reasons….

Yeah, they’re so fucking ethical they WEAR FUR but demand it be the “moral” variety…. they want to flaunt their fucking Nieman Marcus overpriced snotty shit, but get the addeed bonus of feeling like they’re also “ethically” superior people on top of being rich, vain douchebags…

…and then they feel their “morals” have been raped when they dicover their ‘faux mink’ is in fact The Real McCoy…?

FUCK THEM WITH HYDRAULIC FRACKING FLUID

in related news, I put pureed chinchilla in Vegan dishes. Just for personal pleasure.

Yes, I can laugh, and yes, I am pleased, and my concern about their right to ‘get what they pay for’ is more than compensated by schadenfreude. Rich, tasty schadenfreude

Warren is one of very few Dem politicians who go after the cozy relationship between big banks, Wall Street, and their Obama administration so-called regulators. That’s about the only positive thing I can say.

Senator Warren has rejected full legalization in the past, but she’s an open-minded enough person to listen to logic. Maybe you should all try to talk to her about the benefits of legalization, instead of resorting to ridiculous, childish name-calling and weird, blatant sexism.

Let the record reflect that she was telling a lame joke, and that she has shown that she is willing to change her political positions when confronted with evidence. Grow up, all of you. Try to do some good — don’t be dicks.

But I thought the Democrats were going to legalize all of it? That’s what all the progressive I know said about Obama. According to their predictions marijuana was going to be 100% legal by this time right now in the Obama admin. What happened guys? Wasn’t Mr Cool going to fix it? He did blow and smoked weed in college. He doesn’t even seem to care! How many black people have been arrested? How many kids who look like Obama’s son (if he had one) have been arrested for marijuana possession since January 2009 and March 2013? Have all those cases been thrown out of court? I thought he was going to make it all better. Is that how cool people act? The reality is that Obama and Warren are bigger squares than I am. And that’s saying a lot.

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